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WHMCS Dev Lives Matter!
BTW, I think it's completely hilarious that everyone and his mother has written a VPS control panel, but open source billing systems are few and far between. Even some that start that way turn commercial sometimes.
Maybe Gas Station was not the best example to explain it, Landlords should be better
They also raises up the rent for the apartments, and you dont get any additional Benefits...most....but maybe you have a good Landlord and have renovate your Bathroom..as the result of rasing of the rent. But on WHMCS: Price raises up 250%: Benefits raises up..0,00%.
It's a free market and you're totally free not to use them. I'd imagine they are betting on people sticking with the status quo / low hassle factor.
How about Windows as a comparison. Everyone could switch to Linux and save cash, but the price isn't the only issue.
Well he who have 10 owned licenses in 10 years can make great money.
Cpanel owned licenses are sold now for 1000+
Not everyone pays for Windows
I once rented where the landlord said they'll be putting a drive in, a porch and make sure they'd upgrade the central heating, although when we first moved in we was paying £600/month, it slowly crept up to £630/month after the first 12months, then out of no where in the second 12 months they wanted £975/month for doing absolutely nothing.
Well, to be fair, Microsoft spent a non-trivial marketing budget on making people believe otherwise.
Behave yourself.
My bills that increase year on year with no additional benefit:
Landline
Mobile
Gas
Electricity
Taxes
Insurances
Servicing for my watches
Car Servicing
and more...
WHMCS provide you with security patches and additional features, those are benefits.
Does anyone have a owned whmcs license they want to sell?
Jebus, that was quick...
Plot twist: he meant "wenches".
ofcourse I can see demand for those skyrocketing
Chicks with dicks cost more!
Brexit fail 2017-2025
The problem is the cost isn't worth it for the quality and features, I wrote a billing system I can use right now to replace WHMCS in terms of billing, invoicing, help desk, provisioning, and such but for a few hundred dollars for an owned license there really is nothing else out there that can compete with it. I have a Blesta owned license but it doesn't do what WHMCS does for us.
The billing, help desk, and provisioning part of WHMCS can easily be replaced with a few hours of PHP coding and your favorite energy drink. Unfortunately for a legitimate business that is such a small part of the equation. My dad and I spend more time looking at reports than we do looking at tickets, invoices, clients, and services. I've spent more time creating and running reports than I have building hooks and plugins which is impressive because of how easy it is to create reports and how robust their system is for handling reports.
If WHMCS was simply a "billing system" people would have jumped ship during the "exploit WHMCS" trend, fortunately for business owners it's not just a billing system. Think of WHMCS as "HR-in-a-box" and you'll see why dropping a few hundred dollars is worth it.
Yep, all valid points, I will pay it, there is no viable alternative (although I genuinely do not understand why), but I feel I am entitled to be annoyed that they essentially just took $500 out of my pocket with no other reasoning than 'because we can'
Maybe next year it will go up to $100 p/month for 2000+ clients, then the year after that $1 p/client, and why not, they don't have any natural competition, this is probably just to test the waters.
If they start heading into Ubersmith pricing territory then at least there will be competition.
Does Ubersmith have a supported migration path from WHMCS do you know, they can probably hit 60% of the price of Ubersmith and be just fine.
For the amount Ubersmith charges, I'm willing to bet they'll dedicate an engineer to get your clients migrated over.
I believe they did in the past.
Ubersmith good？
seem the price very expensive， dare not to think on this
Thank the lord I bought enough owned license. Just for in case. Either way im saving these goldies for later.
Plot twist: "Sorry, we no longer allow transfer of owned licenses. You're welcome to renew maintenance, but we no longer allow transfers."
Pft.
2017 - Trump sells some of the USA's population to pay back debt to China
2018 - North Korea congratulates the USA and threatens to send "birthday" warheads
2018/19 - North Korea is no longer on the map
2019/20 - China declares war against the USA in support of communism and the regime
2021 - WWIII
@raindog308
to people using 1000+ users
Who said about transfer? More like renting them monthly
end up monthly license and owned license will have similar fee. Last month when I submit ticket without pay the queue up fee, the response and resolution time still acceptable, it took about 1 hours.
my ticket was summited yesterday, they took almost 12 hours to reply me, and after my immediate reply until now no more response. already over 15hours.
They may delay the response time to force you pay the queue up fee.
I'm sure that is coming hence why I am trying to find a owned license now instead of later.
In any case I can guarantee this 100% that in the near future they will stop offering updates to owned licenses as a way to force people to their monthly billing packages or force people to have older/unsupported versions.
That's not how they work, the owned licences will be fine forever more. The support package to keep it updated however will increase in price beyond a value that makes having an owned licence uneconomical.
There are many developers here why not support boxbilling, its open-source. I Already use it